Indeed. I remember watching a video when So Ji-sub's diet was this packaged chicken breast thing and something else. Really small portions. A Pentagon member also had something similar.

Thanks for all that information! I think I'll wait a few more weeks before I give it a try. I'm still recuperating from the emotional roller coaster of The Smile Has Left Your Eyes.

Oh no! I wish you hadn't said that! I only saw L in one drama and I felt he was the absolute worst actor I had ever seen. His performance was embarrassing. I think that was Ruler Master of the Mask. I haven't watched him in anything else and never gave him another chance. I know there are a lot of people out there that like this guy, so my comment here will likely get attacked, but honestly, I really don't think I can sit through another drama with that guy in it. On the other hand, I had similar feelings about the acting of Suzy and then she appeared in a drama with Lee Jung Suk and her acting appeared to have improved greatly. I thought maybe it was the chemistry between the two.

@zzthorn December 3, 2018 at 5:47 PM

Please don't freak out. L does a great job as an admirably righteous judge. ;-)

Adapted from the writings of a working judge, MISS HAMMURABI deals with the practice of law as an internal process of the judges presiding over cases. It's a unique proposition, and has colored my views of subsequent courtroom dramas (YOUR HONOR, SUITS, LAWLESS ATTORNEY, and ROOM NO. 9, which deals with a death-row inmate and a morally-compromised lawyer at a rotten-to-the-core law firm).

I mentioned L in my original post in the spirit of full disclosure. I've seen some of his earlier work (SINGLE CUNNING LADY, in which the now-fantastic Seo Kang-joon was also very, very green, and SHUT UP FLOWER BOY BAND, in which he plays guitar in Eye Purification in the shadow of Lee Min-ki's immortal Joo Byung-hee).

I'm a sageuk fan, and can assure you that RULER was a pleasant but lightweight fantasy diversion that at times was campy. It wasted a lot of talented actors, among them Heo Jun-ho (fabulous in BEAUTIFUL MIND and COME HERE AND HUG ME) and a passel of sageuk stalwarts. I watched it following REBEL, which was terrific from first to last, while chilling out between a bunch of intense dramas that included: LOOKOUT, CIRCLE, DUEL (Yang Se-jong's quadruple performance is daebak), tragic tour de force SEVEN DAY QUEEN, sadly underwhelming MY SASSY [JOSEON] GIRL, and Yoon Si-yoon's retro timeslip BEST HIT. I nearly dropped RULER after the first 3 weeks, but hung in because I enjoyed the music and it was fun to watch Yoo Seung-ho, who often does genres I don't care for. That said, methinks L was extending his acting range into villainy. It was also his first sageuk role, with the attendant speech and conventions. Even so, I thought he did a good job. When I next saw him in MISS HAMMURABI, the improvement in his eye acting and expressiveness was instantly apparent. And it certainly helped to have a much better script than RULER's. ;-)

Replying to your next comment here. People keep raving about Signal and My Ahjussi, but in my humble opinion Miss Hammurabi had a way better script. One of the best writing among recent dramas.